Looking at that list, all I can think about is how just 10 months ago a Trump tweet about winning the presidency couldn’t even get 60 likes. And now here we are. It’s surreal sometimes.
Looking at that list, all I can think about is how just 10 months ago a Trump tweet about winning the presidency couldn’t even get 60 likes. And now here we are. It’s surreal sometimes.
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz in 2013, just after Mr. Cruz told Lee what happened at vacation Bible school. Photo via AP Images
I was gonna ask why this is so damn blurry, but then I realized you probably shot this on full zoom from the other side of the room to avoid getting too close to Chuck Johnson in his natural habitat.
No, the CEO of a sport—one that has spent the better part of the last decade advertising its increasing inclusiveness—publicly endorsing the candidacy of a blatant sexist, racist and xenophobic demagogue is ridiculous.
Since it looks like there aren’t any concrete rules against it, I’m hoping the GOP establishment says “Fuck it” and just rams another Romney nomination through. So basically I vote for piss in the ear.
Of course it’s “not a black and white issue.” If you want to argue that subsidizing corporate exports is good government policy, by all means. We have done it for a long time. But, if your ultimate goal is promoting employment and rising wages, there are far better ways to allocate that money than subsidizing the…
I know she didn’t make it up; Sanders has called the Ex-Im Bank “corporate welfare” for a long time. I happen to think he is right, and that the exchange in general didn’t go very well for Clinton.
Yes, all of these short “Will you promise” followups from Ramos are great. They are helpful in terms of clarifying their positions, but furthermore, they provide the kind of concrete answers to concise and pointed questions that people can use to help hold the nominee accountable in the future.
Agreed. Outside of asking Clinton whether or not she will drop out if she is indicted—srsly!?!—these questions are solid so far. And I like the more aggressive posture from the moderators.
Student: “Professor, why does the textbook say that financial markets are rational? There appears to be a long history of speculative bubbles, financial panics, and all sorts of other events that contradict this.”
And here’s something I’ve learned throughout my career: if you are a real leader, you absolutely must challenge the status quo. And when you challenge the status quo, you make enemies. It’s the price of leadership.
It’s worth pointing out that Clinton was always going to build a large lead early on; the majority of her strongest states all vote early. And the Sanders campaign was always going to be about weathering an early storm, surviving an onslaught of stories about how he is finished, and then fighting back and taking the…
H.R. 4018, which would keep the CFPB from implementing any new rules regulating payday lenders for two years, and which would make those rules inapplicable in any state that already has payday loan laws. Those states include Florida where, as the HuffPo points out, nearly all of the Democrats co-sponsoring the bill…
Thank you! I do sincerely hope you are right; I just worry that, amidst the hate and prejudice, there is already just enough “reasonable” coming out to make me worry about the general. Or maybe he’ll just do us all a favor and choke on a corndog or something. Who knows?
After basically clinching the nomination today, Trump will slowly pivot towards the center and start talking/behaving more reasonably, picking up moderate Republicans in the process.
I’m certainly not, and it’s pretty damn disconcerting that most of the people in the press who do seem so sure about this are the same people who have fundamentally misunderstood, and thereby continually underestimated, Trump’s appeal so far.